Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1858 — Election in New Orleans. [ARTICLE]

Election in New Orleans.

New Orleans, June 7. The election has gome American. Girard Stith is elected by a large majority. The Vigilance Committee are stjll behind the barricades—not half of them voted. They say they will carrv out. their resolution to free the city of ruffians. There is great rejoicing in Lafayette Square among the Stitlji party. The city is in an uproar. ' \ oi!7”The Vice President hrs dried up tlie “Refectory,” or drinking saloon attached to the Senate Chamber, for the reason that graye Senators’ frequently show the effects of their visits to it in a manner highly detrimental to the business of the countrj' and the character of the body. In plain language, some of the Senators hiave been getting too drunk to doj their duty, and have-been acting the fool, to the discredit of the country. The Vice President has done a good work. —lndianapolis Journal. OT/”The Boon County Ledger says that a couple of pen, named Foster and Sibert, of that county, having had some horses stolen, went in search of them to a settlement on Oil creek, where they found them and a neat of thieves who had taken them and a good many other*. Eight brothers, names not reported,formed the respectable firm of thieves, arid they have been prosecuting their trade with great enterprise ankl diligence in various parts of the county.; A Battle with the Indivns in Texas. —A telegraphic dispatch from Now Orleans says: “We have received later intelligence from Texas, by which we learn of a desperate battle that was fought in the northern (.arCof the State’ between the Rangers, under Captain Ford, and a large body of Camanclie Indians. The fight was a running one of six miles, and resulted in the defeat of the Indians, 79 otf killed, several wounded, and 17 taken prisoners. Three hundred horses were also captured by the whites. Captain Ford’s loss was only two kill'd’and two wounded; one of the killed was a white and the other an Indian who fought under Ford.” 0/7” A man who sold, pjpp-corn, ia the hall of the Chicago post-office, not agreeing with Mr Buchanan on the great National Democratic question of the day, ha* received notice to quit. * OT/~Thc army worm is said to be committing great havoc in the wheat and other felds near Norfolk, Va.